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. 2007;53(1-2):49-52.

A novel single nucleotide polymorphism, IVS2 -97A>T, in the prostaglandin F2alpha receptor gene was identified among the Malaysian patients with glaucoma

Hoh Boon Peng  1 , Mohd Nizam Zahary, Liza Sharmini Ahmad Tajudin, Chieng Li Lin, Cheong Min Teck, Mohamad Ros Sidek, Azman Zulkifli, Bin Alwi Zilfalil
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  • PMID: 17582204

A novel single nucleotide polymorphism, IVS2 -97A>T, in the prostaglandin F2alpha receptor gene was identified among the Malaysian patients with glaucoma

Hoh Boon Peng et al. Kobe J Med Sci. 2007.

Abstract

The Prostaglandin F2alpha (PGF2alpha) receptor gene has been found to play an important role in reducing the intraocular pressure of the glaucomatous patients. Variations of the PGF2alpha receptor gene may be responsible for the differences in the response to an antiglaucoma drug, Latanoprost. A combined method of denaturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (dHPLC) and sequencing was applied to detection of the PGF2alpha receptor gene variant among the 76 Malaysian patients with glaucoma, and a novel single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), IVS -97A>T, was identified. According to the genotyping analysis, 36.8% of the subjects were heterozygous for the variant allele T, while 9.2% homozygous. The frequency of variant allele T was 0.28. Although with a limited number of samples, our data suggested that this polymorphism is common in the Malaysian patients with glaucoma.

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